Ecosystems and human well-being
Subtitle: El Maghara, Northern Sinai, Egypt
Contributors: United Nations Environment Programme. Division of Early Warning and Assessment; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program)
Publisher: UNEP; Fordfoundation
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Nairobi, Kenya
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9789280730562
Subjects: Environmental conditions; Environmental policy; Sustainable development; Natural history; Human ecology; Ecosystem management
Notes: "Produced by Division of Early Warning and Assessment, United Nations Environment Programme."--T.p. verso.

"The sub-global assessments, of which this volume is one, a basic component of the MA [Millennium Ecosystem Assessment] initiative. ... Egypt's sub-global assessment, a part of the Arab Millennum Ecosystem Assessment, is a community-based assessment, conducted in the El Maghara area, North Sinai. A main objective of the assessment is to capture real life experience of changes in ecosystems and human well-being. The inhabitants of El Maghara area are among the poorest and least served in Sinai, and probably in Egypt. El Maghara also remains as one area in the whole of Sinai where pristine Bedouin culture and practices prevail."--Page 11.

"Lead coordinating author: Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Assessment methods; title: 2. El Maghara ecosystem, trends, conditions, and impacts; title: 3. Local knowledge: a valuable resource; title: 4. El Maghara scenarios: alternative images of the future; title: 5. Policy responses: moving toward sustainability.